Comment 4 for bug 40329

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Björn Tillenius (bjornt) wrote : Re: [Bug 40329] Re: Oops if 'utf-8' isn't in HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET

On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 05:41:32AM -0000, James Henstridge wrote:
> While we are serving pages as UTF-8, everything works fine. If we
> sometimes serve pages as ISO-8859-1, then users may sometimes send us
> ISO-8859-1 data in form posts.

Yes, this is true. Zope deals with encoding/decoding errors like this
badly. But I guess the reason no one has cared much about this, is
because I have not yet seen a client not accepting UTF-8. And if they
do accept UTF-8, Zope will choose that to encode the page.